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In the spirit of looking back and processing lessons learned, we bring you a selection of recent milestone reflection posts from the writers behind
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The Intrinsic Perspective
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Hot Singles
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. (See our first installment of this series
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here
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, a publication that bridges the sciences and humanities with essayistic forays into a variety of subjects, offered a recent 2021 retrospective with advice for other writers:
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Its birth year has been an incredible one for this experiment, The Intrinsic Perspective. So with the end of 2021 approaching, here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the growth of this newsletter of literary/scientific essays, what choices I think had an impact, and what the reaction (occasionally qu…
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One takeaway:
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Find an aesthetic
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Erik writes that “online writers need to enlarge a reader’s pool of faith by looking professional,” both by ensuring your writing is grammatically correct and consistent, and by choosing good images for headlining posts. “This is a thorny problem, and one I particularly struggled with in early days.”
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From the local news arena, journalists
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and
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Hank Stephenson
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of state-level politics publication the
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Arizona Agenda
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shared an update on their publication, three months after launching:
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It’s been three months since we started this thing — a full quarter running a publication without any bosses. Starting next week, we’re putting some stuff behind the paywall for the first time. If you can’t afford a subscription but want to be able to read paid content, reply to this email. Our founding members are entitled to 10 paid subscriptions, and …
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One takeaway:
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“One viral story doesn’t make or break a publication,” they observed. “In fact, the spikes in new traffic those stories brought in didn’t produce a huge spike of subscribers. Instead, what seems to work is consistently asking people to pay for their subscription in our morning emails, and steady reporting detailing how government works (and doesn’t).”
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Artist and writer
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Hima Batavia
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serves as a personal journal, wrote a milestone post reflecting on what she’s learned over one year of writing, from starting out with “no clear direction for the newsletter, no big dreams, and no long-term plan,” to feeling “more grounded in my capabilities, my voice, and the nature of this space”:
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#48 - one year of writing
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Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good
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When she first started her publication, she says that “the critical part of my brain was relentless, and in the 8-10 hours it took me to write a post, at least a third of the time was spent managing the internal drama.” Since then, she’s learned the right approach to unblock herself: “It is important to me to show up and write in integrity, but I think of the newsletter more as a place to process, rather than to share polished and perfected work. That might change, but right now it works and I love it.”
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Ryan Broderick
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, a Substack about internet goings-on, shared his analysis and findings from the full year’s data on his publication, including tidbits like “the perfect Garbage Day post has 8.3 different stories in it and a subject line of 38.8 characters”:
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This subject line is the optimal length
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Sales work
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“There were three big subscription spikes for Garbage Day this year and, unfortunately for anyone looking for some kind of magical secret for financial success, all three were tied to things beyond what I was writing in the newsletter,” Ryan writes. “The biggest subscription spike of the year came after I announced I was joining the Sidechannel Discord network. The other two were when I offered coupons. People fucking love coupons.”
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, a Substack about how to start and grow a personal brand, also celebrated a one-year milestone, this time with a reflection post that offered three main lessons from the past year:
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of New York dating publication
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hey hotties! hot singles began as a half-baked scheme to find romantic partners for myself and my friends. i sent out the first email to 70 people on december 18, 2020. now, a year later, the audience has grown to nearly 3000 subscribers. it’s been written up in…
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